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If you are experiencing rage and despair about what is happening in America and the world right now because of the Trump-Vance-Musk regime, you are hardly alone. But a groundswell of opposition is growing. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/ten-reasons-for-optimism

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WATCH: "There is hope." Despite Trump's attacks on DEI during Black History Month, @katiephang.bsky.social highlights the lawsuits challenging the President's overreach. #KatiePhangShow

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"The best tool we have is public pressure..." @sarajacobs.house.gov on the GOP's majority in Congress. "The more Republicans start to feel this pressure, the more they'll be willing to work with us to stand up to what Elon Musk, and DOGE and Donald Trump are doing."

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"Who is he appealing to?" @sifill.bsky.social on Trump issuing an executive order ending the Law Enforcement Accountability Database. "It's a degradation of the office itself..."

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What lies beneath. As goes the Great Salt Lake, so does Utah and surrounding states. Money from the Inflation Reduction Act marked the largest ever federal investment in the GSL. This is funding the Trump/Musk Administration calls wasteful. #utpol #FCNL #quakerlobby #quakerwitness #friends

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“It’s a deterrent to lawful whistle-blowing,” said Mark Zaid, a lawyer who represents individuals who speak out about wrongdoing in the government. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

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No doubt last night’s purge reflects racism and misogyny. But those wrongs are just a cover for the far more serious evils and dangers that exist here.

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Outbreaks of measles in parts of Texas and New Mexico have sickened nearly 100 people, according to state health officials who warned that the number of cases was expected to rise.

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$200 million taxpayer dollars spent on “tell me I’m pretty” ads to stroke his own ego, while he fires people to “save money.” Sociopathic.

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When these inaccuracies were first found, they could be called "mistakes." When DOGE took efforts to cover them up, they can no longer be considered "mistakes."

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The DOGE numbers don't add up. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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The Russia thing was NEVER a hoax.

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Everyone should know that Social Security is massively efficient. It's the most efficient program we have. Its overhead is only 0.5%. Cutting Social Security staff will do nothing to improve that and only result in problems with people getting the payments they are legally owed.

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My mom helped run a Social Security field office for most of my childhood. The population that these locations serve is overwhelmingly disabled, elderly, poor or some combination thereof. That’s who they’re looking to deny services and resources.

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NEW: Elon Musk’s team has descended on an already understaffed Social Security Administration, which now faces further workforce cuts and closures of vital local offices. The consequences could be significant for millions of the most vulnerable Americans.

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This is direct theft of taxpayer money for political purposes. It is literally stealing.

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WATCH: “So far DOGE has saved enough to buy each of us 3 cups of coffee.” Economist Justin Wolfers on the DOGE DIVIDEND It’s all a trick. Their goal is tax cuts for the rich. And they never cared about the debt.

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These people all have actual conflicts of interest that should keep them from working on any investigations like this. It's a measure of how tainted and corrupt this Justice Department is becoming and it breaks my heart. I hope it doesn't break our country. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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DOGE’s accounting of its “savings” is riddled with sloppy mistakes. The five largest cuts that it listed on its website earlier this week were all incorrect — making the savings look far larger than they were in reality.

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This is actually very important to protecting democracy.

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Muskrat Posting He thinks he's the DogeFather KETAMINE on STEROIDS

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“I want you to thank me.” 💰Kristi Noem says Trump told her to spend $200 MILLION (taxpayer dollars) running ads thanking him for his immigration crackdown. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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MAGA wants to dismantle the government because it doesn’t work for us. Meanwhile…

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This is how you do it. Other news agencies like Axios and CBS, stop rolling over! Grow a spine, stand up straight and fight!

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One reason Trump is doing this is bc Trump has failed to come close to meeting his deportation promises. If that were to become a bigger narrative--if the mob learned that he was diverting NatSec resources yet is falling behind Sleepy Joe Biden's deportation numbers--Trump'd be in trouble.

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Donald Trump has told Kristi Noem to spend $200 million of public funds on ads thanking him for "securing the border," North Korea-style www.semafor.com/article/02/1... www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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“Operation Whirlwind” What’s Happening Now? In 2025, Operation Whirlwind was launched under Interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin to investigate alleged threats against employees of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

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US officials are reportedly threatening to revoke Starlink access for Ukraine if they don’t give us 50% of their mineral rights. That’s not diplomacy, it’s extortion. We’re also pushing them to kill a UN Resolution that blames Russia for starting the war. Facts matter.

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Say it loud: this is fascism — and we must all resist it. We must guard against the 'bystander effect' when we encounter creeping fascism. tinyurl.com/54hvtw77 It takes wisdom and courage to admit to being wrong. Sadly, very few Trump supporters are in possession of these attributes.

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